We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
More Henry James Quotes
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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